Overview

AltaPointe’s Adult Residential Services are designed for consumers with serious and persistent mental illness who require social rehabilitation and community support. Combining medical, nursing and clinical services, our staff provides care and treatment for more than 200 adults in need of intensive service provision. The Adult Residential Services Program consists of group homes, which are supervised 24 hours/day when consumers are on the premises. Expected outcomes are the same for each adult group home: to prevent re-hospitalization and to maximize and maintain successful community placement. Residential care focuses on the rehabilitation and return to the community of seriously mentally ill consumers.

Responsibilities

Nurses in the residential setting are responsible for administering medications, reviewing MARs to ensure medication management, deescalating or resolving crisis situations in the group home, and ongoing compliance with the Nurse Delegation Program.

Essential Functions

Administers medications, observing the Seven Rights of medication administration. Monitors consumers for potential side effects of medications and report findings to the physician

Provides medication education for the consumer and family, including uses and potential side effects.

Reviews MARs daily to ensure appropriate medication management which includes timely refills and any necessary arrangements with medical staff for new prescriptions

Identifies psychiatric and medical needs and communicates effectively with the physicians to include completing of consults and taking of any orders.

Observes consumers behavior, interacts with consumers and evaluate needs to ensure that proper information is reported from shift to shift

Interfaces with the multi-disciplinary team and actively and cooperatively participates in development of the interdisciplinary treatment plan

Monitors laboratory results and reports all abnormal findings to the physician

Demonstrates the ability to recognize the elements of a crisis state and knows how to deescalate or resolve the situation, including providing emergency care as needed (CPR, MindSet, PRN Medications)

Strong grasp is needed to handle large carts while retrieving consumer files from the Zeigler Outpatient building and lighter grasp is needed for stocking supplies which requires a force exertion of up to 10 pounds.